If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic. If you are in crisis, these helplines can help:
Crisis numbers in Nigeria
- She Writes Woman, toll-free and answered at any hour: Tel: 0800 800 2000
- SURPIN, Suicide Research and Prevention Initiative: Toll-free: +234-8000787746 | Tel: +234-908-021-7555 | Tel: +234-903-440-0009 | Tel: +234-814-224-1007
- Lagos Lifeline, from Lagos State, 24 hours: Tel: 070 0000 6463, the toll-free line | Tel: 020 1410 6463 | WhatsApp: 090 9000 6463
- Asido Foundation, Ibadan: Tel: +234 902 808 0416 | Tel: +234 818 077 7458 | WhatsApp: +234 902 808 0416
- All crisis lines in Nigeria
This page lists Black Anxiety Psychologists in Lagos. 6 in all.
That is 6 of the 15 psychologists listed in Lagos.
These are practitioners who identify as Black on their profile. It is their own answer to a profile question. We do not check it.
The request is usually narrower: a practitioner who will name race early, without you having to explain yourself. Some family therapy approaches recommend the therapist raise it near the start 1. You can ask a practitioner how they handle it.
How anxiety is treated
Anxiety treatment is for fear and worry that persist and get in the way.
The treatments with the most evidence are based on cognitive-behavioural principles 2. That includes exposure therapy, where you face what you have been avoiding, a step at a time.
A prescriber may also consider medicine, depending on age and severity 3. Ask a practitioner how they work with anxiety.
What a psychologist does, and where assessment fits in
Everyone on this page is listed under the professional title psychologist. Psychologists apply the study of the mind and behaviour to assist people through difficulty. Clinical psychologists work with people of all ages, with families, carers, teams and communities.
Assessment belongs to a psychologist's training, and sits alongside therapy. Clinical, counselling and educational psychology are different training routes. Each route emphasises different work.
Which titles are registered varies by country. Where the title is registered, the register says what it covers. Ask a psychologist which route they trained through, and what they work with most.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the practitioner's stated Black identity, the specialism recorded as Anxiety and the professional title psychologist.
The Lagos page answers more questions about therapy there.
Paying for therapy in Lagos
Do affordable options exist in Lagos?
Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Yaba Outpatient Mental Health Services. Phone +234 815 517 0000. The provider marks Clinical Psychology as NHIS accredited and directs patients to use NHIS health-insurance services. The current NHIA benefit statement says beneficiaries do not need cash for treatment except a 10% medicine co-payment, and its live fee-for-service list includes comprehensive psychiatric assessment and psychotherapy. This affordable route is limited to eligible NHIA enrollees. The hospital describes two public entry points for first-time patients. Its outpatient clinics cover adults, addiction, forensic, geriatric, rehabilitation, and children and adolescents. To use the National Health Insurance Authority cover you must be currently enrolled. You can also attend and pay cash.
Who registers therapists in Nigeria?
See the Nigeria page for the professions that do carry a register there.
What these practitioners record
Sessions here are offered in English and Yoruba.
Nearby places and related listings
- Anxiety Psychologists in Lagos
- Female Anxiety Psychologists in Lagos
- Male Anxiety Psychologists in Lagos
- Black Anxiety Psychotherapists in Lagos
- Black Addiction Psychologists in Lagos
- Black Child Psychologists in Lagos
- Psychologists in Lagos
- Counsellors in Lagos
- Lagos: all therapists listed (63)
- Marriage counselling in Lagos
References
[1] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, pp. 71-72, citing Kelly et al. (2020). Cultural humility, cultural competence and the therapeutic alliance.
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)


